478 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 469
CHAPTER 468.
(House Bill 255)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 157
of Article 75 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edi-
tion), title "Pleadings, Practice and Process at Law", sub-
title "Process", providing that actions ex delicto may in cer-
tain cases be brought where cause of action arose.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 157 of Article 75 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Pleadings, Practice and Pro-
cess at Law", sub-title "Process", be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

157. No person shall be sued out of the county in which he
resides until the sheriff or coroner of the county in which he
resides shall have returned a non est on a summons issued in
such county; provided, that nothing herein contained shall
apply to any person who shall abscond from justice in the
county where he lives, but such person may be sued in any
county where he may be found; and provided further, that any
person who resides in one county but carries on any regular
business, or habitually engages in any avocation or employ-
ment in another county, may be sued in either county, whether
before a justice of the peace or in a court of law or equity;
this section not to apply to ejectment, dower, replevin, scire
facias on judgment or decree, nor to heirs, devisees or terre-
tenants, against whom process may be issued to another
county.

In any action ex delicto in which all of the defendants are
not residents of, nor carrying on regular business in, nor
habitually engaged in any avocation or employment in one
county, the plaintiff may, at his election, sue all said defend-
ants in the county where the cause of action arose. As used in
this section the term "county" includes "Baltimore City".

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved March 29, 1945.

CHAPTER 469.

(House Bill 260)

AN ACT to repeal Section 141 of Article 3 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Bal-